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No. 264,581. I Patented Sept. 19, 1882.

' WITNESSES: INVENTOB ATTORNEYS.

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UNITE STATES PATENT ()FFICE.

JOHANN T. STULL, or SACRAMENTO CITY, CALIFORNIA.

HARNESS-BUCKLE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 264,581, dated September 19, 1882.

Application filed July 24,1885 (N0 model.) i

To all whom it may concern;

Be it known that 'I, JOHANN '1. Storm, of

Sacramento City, in the county of Sacramento and State of California, have invented a new and usefullmprovement in Harness-Buckles, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact v description.

' construction that it will not catch or retain th hair of the horses tail.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, in which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure l is a perspective'view of a strap having my new and improved buckle attached thereto, showing the manner of .using the buckle. Fig. 2 is a sectional elevation of the same, and Fig. 3 is a perspective vicwof the buckle removed from the strap.

A represents the frame of the buckle, and B represents the upturned hook, which is attached to the baraof the frameAin the same manner that the tongue in ordinary buckles is attached, or it may be attached in any suitable manner. 'This hook B is somewhat shorter than the frame A, as shown clearly in Fig. 3.

-In use the buckle may be attached to the strap by stitching in the ordinary manner, leaving aportion of the strap projecting past the frame of the buckle a sufficient distance for carrying a strap-loop; or in case the strap is'folded, as shown at D in Figs 1 and 2, the buckle 'is not stitched to the strap, but the hook thereof is simply passed through the hole 0 in the strap, the strap D being carried past the frame of the buckle, as shown at d, and

dinary holes in the strap, as shown in Figs. 1 a

and 2. By this means the strap E will be securely held by the hook B, and there will be no danger of the buckle catching the hairs of the horses tail, as is the case with buckles of the ordinary construction.

I am aware that it is not new to form a buckle with an upwardly end-curved tongue or with a downwardly-curved tongue; but the tongue in both these cases is rigid on a crossbar.

What I claim as new isv A harness-buckle whose tongue B is pivoted to the bar a and provided with angular upward bend, b, at the free end, to adapt it to be used as described.

JOHANN TOBIAS STOLL.

W'itnesses:

WILLIAM C. MoNEELY, PAUL GRAF. 

